Bad Säckingen (;

High Alemannic High Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic German spoken in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Intelligibility of these dialects to non-Alemannic speakers tends to be limited. Language area The High ...

: ''Bad Säckinge'') is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

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. It is famous as the "Trumpeter's City" because of the book ''Der Trompeter von Säckingen'' ("The Trumpeter of Säckingen"), a famous 19th-century novel by German author Joseph Victor von Scheffel.

Geography

Bad Säckingen is located in the very southwest of Germany on the

High Rhine High Rhine (, ; kilometres 0 to 167 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Lake Constance () and the city of Basel, flowing in a general east-to-west direction and forming mostly the Germany–Switzerland border. It is the first of fo ...

next to the Swiss border. The city lies on the southern edge of the Hotzenwald, which is the southern foothills of the

Black Forest The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...

Constitutuent communities

The town of Bad Säckingen consts of the following former municipalities: * Harpolingen with the farms Lochmühle and Rüttehof and the houses Holdmatt * Rippolingen with the Flut farmstead and the Santihof houses * Säckingen with the district of Obersäckingen and the houses Am Bergsee * Wallbach

Nearby places

*Close (<15 km): Wallbach,

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, Murg am Hochrhein, Laufenburg (Baden), Stein AG, Rheinfelden (Schweiz),

Rheinfelden (Baden) Rheinfelden (; , ) is a town in the Lörrach (district), district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, across from Rheinfelden (Aargau), Rheinfelden, Switzerland, and 15 km east of Basel ...

, Rickenbach (Hotzenwald) *Further away (>15 km): Waldshut-Tiengen,

Schopfheim Schopfheim () is a town in the Lörrach (district), district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese (river), Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden (Baden), Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The ...

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AG,

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AG,

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SH, St. Blasien,

Todtmoos Todtmoos is a village and municipality in the district of Waldshut in the southern part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea ...

, Freiburg i.Br.,

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Origin of the name

Säckingen (since 1978 Bad Säckingen, first mentioned in a document in 878 as Seckinga) is traditionally considered to be the foundation of an

Alemanni The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes * * * on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213 CE ...

group called Secco. However, the name of the city most likely originated from the Germanization of a Roman place name (Sanctio) (similar to

Aachen Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is locat ...

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...

and others), possibly from the name of the Diocletian province

Maxima Sequanorum The Sequani were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the upper river basin of the Arar river (Saône), the valley of the Doubs and the Jura Mountains during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Name They are mentioned as ''Sequanos'' by Caesar (mid-1s ...

, founded in 297 AD. In the Latin text of Fridolinsvita (970), Säckingen is called Secanis and Seconis (pronunciation a>o) and in 1207 also Seconia. Seconis is to be interpreted as a local case of Seconia, which can be easily derived from Sequaniacum (= sanctuary of Sequana). According to the belief of the Celts, the goddess of springs, the art of healing and health revealed herself in the swampy soil of the saline thermal baths of Säckingen (seik – "dripping flow", Sequana – "daughter of the springs"). The author of Fridolinsvita based himself on a concept that had probably originated as early as the 8th century and had preferred the pre-Alemannic place name. However, the emerging tax cadastre of the Franks could not do without Seckinga. In the documents of the 13th century, the Celto-Roman place name was used again as a sign of erudition: 1275 Sigillum Civium Seconiensium = seal of the citizens of the city of Seconis (Seconiis = "at the Temple of Seconia").

History

The history of the city dates back to the early 6th Century, when Saint Fridolin founded

Säckingen Abbey Säckingen Abbey is a former Roman Catholic abbey located in Bad Säckingen, Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The Abbey was founded in the 6th or 7th century by Fridolin of Säckingen, an Irish monk. While the Abbey had both monks and nuns, only ...

and a church. Around 1200 most of the city was destroyed in a huge fire. Afterwards, construction began in the middle of the town on a Gothic cathedral, called the ''Fridolinsmünster'', which can still be visited today. In the closing stages of the 1672–1678

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, the town was severely damaged by French soldiers commanded by the Comte de Choiseul, following their victory over an Imperial force at Rheinfelden on 7 July 1678. After the

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the city was under control of France from 1945-1952. The city was financially helped by the Swiss

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to get over the financial struggles after the war.

Transport

* Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen * Bad Säckingen station

Notable people

Wibrandis Rosenblatt Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504–1564) was the wife of three major religious reformers, who predeceased her: Johannes Oecolampadius (married, 1528–1531), Wolfgang Capito (married, 1532–1541), and Martin Bucer (married, 1542–1551). Family li ...

(1504-1564), successively the wife of three religious reformers

Johannes Oecolampadius Johannes Oecolampadius (also ''Œcolampadius'', in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He was the leader of the Protestant ...

Wolfgang Capito Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (also Koepfel) ( – November 1541) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition. His life and revolutionary work Capito was born circa 1478 to a smith at Hagenau in Alsace. He attended the famous Lati ...

and

Martin Bucer Martin Bucer (; Early German: ; 11 November 1491– 28 February 1551) was a German Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Anglican doctrines and practices as well as Reformed Theology. Bucer was originally a memb ...

* Jacob Keller (1568–1631), German Jesuit theologian, author, and religious instructor. *

Karl Agricola Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola (18 October 1779 – 15 May 1852) was a German artist, noted for his portrait miniatures. Life and works Agricola was born at Bad Säckingen, Margraviate of Baden, in 1779. After a preliminary course of instruction i ...

(1779-1852), engraver and painter of

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s. * Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886), author of '' Der Trompeter von Säckingen'' and ''

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'', * Axel Neumann, (DE Wiki) (born 1966), actor * Baki Davrak (born 1971), Turkish-German actor *

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(born 1973), German politician * Stefanie Böhler (born 1981), cross-country skier, team medalist at the

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Twin towns

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(1973) *

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(1973) *

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(1983) *

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(1983) * Näfels,

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(1988)

References

External links

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